Quotes About Bibliophiles

#1. I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six ...

Glen Duncan

#2. Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

Laird Barron

#3. My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

Carrie Coon

#4. We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

Kevin Smokler

#5. Visiting Specialty Books was like living in an episode of Extreme Hoarders: Bibliophiles.

Molly Harper

#6. Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Jim C. Hines

#7. If you say the words love at first sight I'm taking your man card.

Melissa Hale

#8. Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Willie Van Peer

#9. For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care
of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

Anurag Shourie

#10. I do not just buy books; I collect them with the idea that they fit into a pattern of knowledge.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#11. To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

James Dashner

#12. I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#13. Applause, applause, life is our cause.

Joni Mitchell

#14. But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.

John M. Keller

#15. Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

Joyce Meyer

#16. Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Shields

#17. And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Albert Camus

#18. I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?)

Jo Walton

#19. I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

Marshall McLuhan

#20. To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

Will Thomas

#21. I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

Frederik Pohl

#22. The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Patricia A. McKillip

#23. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

H.L. Mencken

#24. Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day?
- p.397, as by Larry Zagorski, in his short story "The City of the Sun

Jake Arnott

#25. If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Anne Fadiman

#26. Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Anne Rice

#27. The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.

William Shakespeare

#28. You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Junot Diaz

#29. [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

#30. God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#31. We live for books.

Umberto Eco

#32. This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.

Alice McDermott

#33. Commitment hangs on when all else has fallen.

Wes Fesler

#34. If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

Paula Fox